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>relax >harping I don’t accept the characterization of being thorough as harping, or that anyone would need to be unrelaxed for that. Is that ironic with me being told to assume go…

> assume good faith and be civil. I did. Twice in two comments foldr quoted from a source. Both of those quotes are literally right next to another sentence in the source which is …

>Oh, and here's a rather important detail. The paper was rejected! From the link you provided - “Accepted by Affilia , August 21, 2018” Don’t lie.

>they submitted coherent papers that they considered absurd I’ve never heard anyone describe Mein Kampf as coherent. The ramblings of an asshole clearly abusing stimulants would be…

>they submitted coherent papers that they considered absurd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affilia

The impact of test prep is commonly overstated. According to Washington Post and Slate, both being rather progressive, SAT prep might improve scores 10-20 points on average, with g…

>How does “power of attorney” have any relevance here? It doesn’t and that’s Earl’s point. That would be the best way for them to have any standing, but it just doesn’t line up.

bang to run a command is from ed. thats pretty core vi

I’m semi-sure that this is possible with .tar.gz files already. I’ve used vim to view a text file within a few different rather large archives without noticing the machine choke up…

Why should you couple your archive format to a compression algorithm?

In at least one location in the US they did this to mitigate ore dust traveling via wind near a plant.

presumably work accounts are paid

For the most part, people who don’t address Covid as a risk do so because they don’t see it as a risk. That’s different than choosing to avoid risk.

There’s a great Kubecon talk on Queueing Theory if you want a bit more: https://youtube.com/watch?v=yf6wSsOFqdI

That sounds like a great argument for subsidizing teacher and social worker education instead of the wholesale forgiveness of student debt which includes people with degrees in poe…

In an economic context, why would it not be fair to judge the economic worth of someone’s degree on the basis of that degree’s ability to influence their earnings?

From a place of total ignorance, why would telegraphing a particular false strategy to your competitor in order to get them to respond in a way that is profitable to you be illegal…

Do you understand the difference between searching an individual you know had committed a crime and searching pool of people that might contain an individual? No hyperbole needed, …

There’s a meaningful difference between the government getting a warrant to look for a specific person’s DNA and searching everyone’s DNA to see if it’s a match. Why should the gov…

The article explicitly mentions that students use an app called Remind. I would not call this, along with the web portal etc, social media per se, but it does approximately fulfill…

How can social media be a subset of the more widespread problem and the title of the article be correct? The article also does a poor job of framing the school apps as part of a wi…

Author claims it isn’t social media, then proceeds to describe the use of what is effectively social media applications where students communicate with their school and teachers. T…

Rich people disproportionately represent spent money might be more accurate. “Rich people” is a relatively small category of money spenders.